There Has Been A Great Deal Said

Putting A Man In Space Is A Stunt: The Man Can Do No More Than An Instrument, In Fact Can Do Less. There Are Far More Serious Things To Do Than Indulge In Stunts. . . . I Do Not Discard Completely The Value Of Demonstrating To The World Our Skills. Nor Do I Undervalue The Effect On Morale Of The Spectacular. But The Present Hullabaloo On The Propaganda Aspects Of The Program Leaves Me Entirely Cool.

Science Can Be Effective In The National Welfare Only As A Member Of A Team, Whether The Conditions Be Peace Or War. But Without Scientific Progress No Amount Of Achievement In Other Directions Can Insure Our Health, Prosperity, And Security As A Nation In The Modern World.

It Was Through The Second World War That Most Of Us Suddenlyappreciated For The First Time The Power Of Man's Concentrated Efforts To Understand And Control The Forces Of Nature.we Were Appalled By What We Saw.

The Responsibility For The Creation Of New Scientific Knowledge - And For Most Of Its Application - Rests On That Small Body Of Men And Women Who Understand The Fundamental Laws Of Nature And Are Skilled In The Techniques Of Scientific Research. We Shall Have Rapid Or Slow Advance On Any Scientific Frontier Depending On The Number Of Highly Qualified And Trained Scientists Exploring It.

If Scientific Reasoning Were Limited To The Logical Processes Of Arithmetic, We Should Not Get Very Far In Our Understanding Of The Physical World